Kitchen appliances chat

Not as fancy a solution, but we've previously just had an Ikea 60x60cm drawer that pulls out under the sink, and fit free-standing bins inside. Ikea seem to have their own pre-set-up systems for this now too.

yeaah, that's exactly what we have at the moment - we've just put an ikea kitchen in our new flat, with push-to-open drawers, which are awesome and would mean just nudging the drawer for access to bins.

But i'd like to not have to then open a lid - i.e., the internal lid. But it doesn't look like these solutions can do the push to open

Any recommendations on a dual induction / gas hob?

Going back to the ice cream maker chat... Lidl are doing a cheap but small no freeze in advance machine, starting today, may give one a go.

Not seeing it on their website.

No, oddly they have taken it off the website, but I picked one up today, was £60

Some details here

ooh, thanks for the tip, will trot off to my local Lidl and see if they have one

Does anyone have domino hobs?

I’m looking for a wok burner, 2 gas and an induction zone for a 90cm width, but no one has a triple gas induction hob.

Other than going for a Smeg or AEG single wok burner and 4 induction zones, the solution seems to be 1 x 30cm induction, 1x60cm gas (with 3 burners).
Choices seem to be Bosch Series 6 or Fisher & Paykel.

Would be grateful to hear any advice that you might have.

Gaggenau do a really nice series of domino hobs - they’re spenny but I’ve seen the come up on eBay. I’m getting something similar (wok + induction)

Maybe not kitchen appliance but I'm looking for a cool box - this Coleman one seems to get good reviews but should I just pony up for a Yeti? Or something else?

Yeti aren’t any better than any of the rotomolded ones, there’s a definite hipster tax (although none of them are cheap, and the yeti ones are v nice...) I’ve been astounded by how long my Coleman extreme (the small 28QT one) keeps ice icey for over a couple of days. Really depends on use case though - I don’t take things camping and need them cold for a week for example.

They do look lovely, don't quite know how much its going to cost, but look quite spendy.
Basically they do what I want:

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Yeah they aren't cheap but from my research are the best/neatest solution. My FiL will dissown me if we dont have a wok burner and I want to try induction so will be what we go for

What about a cast iron wok that you can use on an induction hob?

Or a portable wok burner.

How much wok cookery do you do?

I think there are a lot of problems with domestic wok cooking, the gas burners are anemic
and for induction you either have a flat bottom one which isn't really a wok or a round
one with some kind of adapter ring.
Then there is the problem of most induction having a ring shaped coil so less heat in the centre.
They also like to shut off when the pan radiates too much heat back, not ideal for woks.
There is a reason why the ones in restaurants look like jet engines.
Maybe the bowl shaped ones work, but most demos with those solutions are people using
non stick or stainless woks at low heat.

Bora do some great Domino hobs but they are very expensive

I did a little research about this when we went for induction. You can get some decent ones for bottled gas, although i guess maybe best for cooking in the garden

I think if you're cooking with a wok a lot then it makes sense. My wifes dad only cooks with a wok. Plus it means I get a sweet cooking setup (downside is I need a separate mortgage to afford the kitchen spec)

Does he do a lot of cooking at your place?

it means I get a sweet cooking setup

Should be reason enough.

for proper wok cooking you need to move a wok around way too much to use an induction or electric hob

Time for a wok cooking thread?

Moving around cast iron woks on induction glass hobs doesn't appeal.
I know that some regions in China, they prefer carbon

6kw is bare minimum I think for proper wok cooking.
The 3kw one on my current Bosch one doesn't do the job.
Also the extractor at the moment is noisy and not that powerful.

I typically cook with a hammered steel wok (wok burner), Le Creuset 30cm shallow casserole and Tefal ingenio induction compatible stainless steel (induction plate), and have some nice pieces of tin lined copper that I'd like to use without (double gas burners).

Also have a Le Creuset cast iron wok in the loft, where the base is too small to be stable on the trivets of my current hob.

I'm getting a quote for some Gaggenau domino hobs as above, extractor, built in microwave.
(they also seem to be the only ones who do a side opening 38cm high built in version)
Maybe that will be half my extension budget gone...

One of my clients works for a Gaggenau main dealer, so said he could get me a keen price.
The problem is, their entry level kitchens start at £30000, so I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be able to afford it…
Hard to find online prices, seems to be mostly price on request.

You can piece together the same using Neff for around £1400, also Smeg do a dual fuel with 1 wok burner and 4 induction plates for about £1300, and AEG do one for about £800.